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Stewart Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$20k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2024
10
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 15
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$4.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Stewart Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Membership BenefitInternationalAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving2$20k50%
FY202310$308k0%
FY202213$290k15%
FY202115$260k33%
FY202011$194k0%
FY201910$172k10%
FY201811$234k0%
FY201712$207kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$465kHealth$295kEnvironment$265kEducation$226kCommunity Improvement$170kPhilanthropy$79kInternational$35kMembership Benefit$20kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
MA
IN
PA
CA
MD
AZ
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Stewart Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Heartland Film Inc$210,00072%
James M Stewart Museum Foundation$205,000733%
Face Forward Inc Dba Face Forward International$150,000718%
Wild Earth Allies Inc$145,00071%
Kasiisi Project Inc$135,000722%
Fauna & Flora International USA Inc$120,00065%
VIP Education Fund$105,000717%
World Savvy$65,00061%
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art$50,00051%
The Actors' Fund of America$40,00020%
International Rescue Committee INC$25,00010%
Arizona Humane Society$5,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($430k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Stewart Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHeartland Film Inc: $210,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetJames M Stewart Museum Foundation: $205,000 over 7y, 33% of budgetFace Forward Inc Dba Face Forward International: $150,000 over 7y, 18% of budgetWild Earth Allies Inc: $145,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetKasiisi Project Inc: $135,000 over 7y, 22% of budgetFauna & Flora International USA Inc: $120,000 over 6y, 5.1% of budgetVIP Education Fund: $105,000 over 7y, 17% of budgetWorld Savvy: $65,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetSouthern Alleghenies Museum of Art: $50,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetThe Actors' Fund of America: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArizona Humane Society: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA5.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Stewart Foundation

How much does Stewart Foundation give?
Stewart Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $20,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 15 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Stewart Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (27%), Health (17%), Environment (15%).
Who are Stewart Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Heartland Film Inc ($210k), James M Stewart Museum Foundation ($205k), Face Forward Inc Dba Face Forward International ($150k).
Does Stewart Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Stewart Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Stewart Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Stewart Foundation based?
Stewart Foundation is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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